No more Hiroshima nukers

[yanpa]

Theodore Van Kirk, last crew member of Enola Gay, dies in US aged 93

The last member of the American crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during the second world war died in Georgia

The last surviving member of the US crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died.

Theodore Van Kirk died Monday of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived in Georgia, his son Tom Van Kirk said. He was 93.

Van Kirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress aircraft that dropped “Little Boy” – the world’s first atomic bomb – over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. The bomb killed 140,000 in Hiroshima. Van Kirk was 24 years old at the time.

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